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Cobar kids join the navy for a day

A group of 49 Cobar High School students from Years 9 and 10 and three teachers travelled to Sydney last week to attend the Stand Tall Conference for young people. The Cobar students were among 5,000 students from across NSW who attended the conference, to hear messages of hope and […]

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Georgia to compete at State training awards

Cobar’s Georgia Boland was named as the winner of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Western NSW Trainee of the Year at the NSW Training Awards Western Region dinner in Bathurst last Thursday. Georgia will now go on to compete at State level against eight other regional winners in her […]

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War Memorial in final planning stages

A vision to build a war memorial at Drummond Park that has been eight years in the planning, is about to become a reality. Local John de Bruin and his small band of helpers have been working with the RSL Sub Branch Cobar committee and Cobar Shire Council to build […]

2023

$250,000 urgent repairs for Cobar Pool

A recent maintenance audit on the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool has found the facility is urgently in need of $250,000 worth of repairs. Cobar Shire Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko raised the issue at last Thursday’s Ordinary Council Meeting as a matter of urgency. In his detailed report to councillors, […]

2023

Local tradie is taking on The Push-Up Challenge

Local tradie and ‘gym junkie’ Craig Fielding will join over 100,000 Aussies tomorrow as they take up the challenge to do 3,144 push-ups in three weeks as part of The Push-Up Challenge, Australia’s largest fitness-based mental health initiative. Craig told The Cobar Weekly he was motivated to join the challenge […]